Colin Wilson's Profile
Brief about Colin Wilson: By info that we know Colin Wilson was born at 1931-06-26. And also Colin Wilson is English Writer.
Some Colin Wilson's quotes. Goto "Colin Wilson's quotation" section for more.The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Tags: Accepting, Rain, StandingThe mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Tags: Change, Mind, PowerCriminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.
Tags: End, Interest, RealBeing very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.
Tags: Famous, Fun, LoseI'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.
Tags: Afraid, Ideas, WriterI've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.
Tags: Books, Hard, PrettyIf I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.
Tags: London, Parties, WriterIf you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.
Tags: Feeling, Human, WorkWhat I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.
Tags: Philosophy, Try, WantedWhen I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.
Tags: Books, Romantic, TotalWhereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.
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